Famous People From Jersey... - TalkNewJersey.net

RosaM68 · 06-25-2008, 07:13 PM

This is a trivia game. Can you name someone who is/was famous that was born in Jersey?

I'll start:

Whitney Houston

palito · 06-25-2008, 08:03 PM

Lets see... in no particular order.....

Bud Abbott comedian, Asbury Park
Charles Addams cartoonist, Westfield
Edwin Aldrin astronaut, Montclair
William Count Basie band leader, Red Bank
Joan Bennett actress, Palisades
Judy Blume author, Elizabeth
Jon Bon Jovi musician, Sayreville
William J. Brennan jurist, Newark
Aaron Burr political leader, Newark
Lloyd H. Conover inventor, Orange
James Fenimore Cooper author, Burlington
David Copperfield magician, Metuchen
Lou Costello comedian, Paterson
Stephen Crane writer, Newark
Helen Gahagan Douglas representative, Boonton
Allen Ginsberg poet, Newark
Savron Glover choreographer, Newark
William Frederick Halsey, Jr. admiral, Elizabeth
Lauryn Hill rapper, South Orange
Donald Fletcher Holmes inventor, Woodbury
Whitney Houston entertainer, Newark
Ice-T rapper, Newark
Alfred Joyce Kilmer poet, New Brunswick
Alfred C. Kinsey zoologist, Hoboken
Ernie Kovacs comedian, Trenton
Dorothea Lange photographer, Hoboken
Jerry Lewis comedian, film director, Newark
Anne Morrow Lindbergh author, Englewood
Norman Mailer author, Long Branch
James W. Marshall discovered gold in California, Hunterdon
Patricia McBride ballerina, Teanick
Eger V. Murphree inventor, Bayonne
Jack Nicholson actor, Neptune City
Dorothy Parker author, West Bend
Zebulon Mongomery Pike explorer, soldier, Lamberton
Joe Piscopo comedian, actor, Passaic
Paul Robeson singer, actor, Princeton
Edward J. Rosinski inventor, Gloucester County
Philip Milton Roth author, Newark
Ruth St. Denis dancer, choreographer, Newark
Antonin Scalia jurist,Trenton
Norman Schwarzkopf army general, Trenton
Frank Sinatra singer, actor, Hoboken
Kevin Spacey actor, South Orange
Bruce Springsteen musician, Freehold
Amos Alonzo Stagg football coach, West Orange
Alfred Stieglitz photographer, Hoboken
Meryl Streep actress, Summit
Albert Payson Terhune journalist, author, Newark
Dave Thomas restaurateur, Atlantic City
William Henry Vanderbilt financier, New Brunswick
Sarah Vaughan singer, Newark
Dionne Warwick actress, singer, East Orange
William Carlos Williams physician, poet, Rutherford
Ray Liotta actor, Newark
Edmund Wilson literary critic, author, Red Bank
Rosa Muniz,newspaper woman, TNJ personality, dreamboat... ??
and, of course, as Rosita here said:
Whitney Houston entertainer, Newark

Happy?

Quote:

Originally Posted by RosaM68

This is a trivia game. Can you name someone who is/was famous that was born in Jersey?

I'll start:

Whitney Houston

RosaM68 · 06-25-2008, 08:11 PM

Alrighty smarty pants, you didn't have to mention all of them at one time!!!

What is everyone else going to post???

j/k

***But I did like the second from the bottom!!! For that I will forgive you for mentioning all the famous people that came from Jersey

Can anyone else think of someone that Palito didn't mention???

palito · 06-25-2008, 08:28 PM

Amorcito, look at my avatar... that's exactly how I am feeling/doing just now. ahhhh. I am no longer the forum's nasty one (someone else beat me to the post) but I certainly an have as much fun as possible.

And, Jersey people are supposedly smart (look how many personalities I managed to uncover! So... let them eat cake and figure out what to post...

J/K
PS... I am no longer nasty, just bad and horrible.

PS2... And how do you interpret that twisted branch and its environment that you set as my pix? I really got curious as to how you arrived at it.... same as for the rest of the group...

Will be interesting, hehehehe.

Wuv ya!

Quote:

Originally Posted by RosaM68

Alrighty smarty pants, you didn't have to mention all of them at one time!!!

What is everyone else going to post???

j/k

***But I did like the second from the bottom!!! For that I will forgive you for mentioning all the famous people that came from Jersey

Can anyone else think of someone that Palito didn't mention???

RosaM68 · 06-25-2008, 08:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by palito

Amorcito, look at my avatar... that's exactly how I am feeling/doing just now. ahhhh. I am no longer the forum's nasty one (someone else beat me to the post) but I certainly an have as much fun as possible.

And, Jersey people are supposedly smart (look how many personalities I managed to uncover! So... let them eat cake and figure out what to post...

J/K
PS... I am no longer nasty, just bad and horrible.

PS2... And how do you interpret that twisted branch and its environment that you set as my pix? I really got curious as to how you arrived at it.... same as for the rest of the group...

Will be interesting, hehehehe.

Wuv ya!

Awww Palito, I didn't mean for you to get upset. I didn't call you a meany. Just a hog for mentioning all of them at one time,

(just like eating all the burgers without sharing, no I won't forget that, LOL)
But if we can't have fun here than there's no point to be here, right?

The pic of you as a twisted branch, well that's another thread

Wub ya too

palito · 06-25-2008, 10:35 PM

Awwww, babe. Me get mad at my fave boricua Lady (with a capital L, please!). Noooo waaaay. And I know u did not call me a meany.... and yepppp, squeeee squeee squeee squeee.... you got to make carnitas outta me,

Burgers? I only made/had two of them. A kind of experiment (love to experiment with culinary creations, improve my recipes, etc. it is fun). I will soon enough send you a recipe for you to recreate a nice burgery dish... ok? Be still, my heart, you will able to do a swill dinner!!

As for having fun... by all means. Please do. Life is to short to take ourselves too seriously, right?

Andele, mija. Diviertase, pongale sal y pimienta a la salsa.

Quote:

Originally Posted by RosaM68

Awww Palito, I didn't mean for you to get upset. I didn't call you a meany. Just a hog for mentioning all of them at one time,

(just like eating all the burgers without sharing, no I won't forget that, LOL)
But if we can't have fun here than there's no point to be here, right?

The pic of you as a twisted branch, well that's another thread

Wub ya too

Moni · 06-26-2008, 02:12 PM

Queen Latifah. She was born and raised between two cities, Newark and Irvington.